Improvement in shoe-brushes



UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE JAMES RYAN, OF WILLIAMSBURG, NEW YORK.

IMFROVEM ENT IN SHOEBRUSHES.

Specification forming part of Letters Pantent No. 150,979, dated May 19,1874; application filed JanuarT 27, 1874.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JAMES RYAN, of Williamsburg, in the county of Kings and State of New York, have invented certain Improvements in Blacking-Brushes, of which the following is a specification:

' This invention relates to improvements in blacking brushes having recesses in their backs or heads for 4the reception of a box of blacking, which is held in place by a sliding or removable cover. This invention consists of a blacking-brush the back of which is provided with a longitudinal tapering dovetail groove for the reception of a slide carrying a small brush for applying the blacking in such a manner that said slide Will confine in place a box of blacking placed in a recess formed in the back of the brush, as hereinafter described.

Figure l is a top View of the brush-head or back. Fig. 2 is a longitudinalvsection through the center. Fig. 3 is a cross-section through the center of the box and head. Fig. 4. is va cross-section through the line A B.

The back or head of the brush is made of the ordinary shape on the top, as shown at G C, Fig. l; but the under side is considerably curved, as shown in Fig. 2, so that a greater thickness of wood is left in the middle than at the ends, thereby giving a suicient depth in the center of the head, as at D, for a recess or hole to be formed from the top downward, and into which a box of blacking. may be inserted to such a depth that a slide or strip of Wood,'as at E, may pass over the upper surface of the box, as shown at Figs. 2 and 3. Said strip of Wood is inserted in a dovetail groove formed in the top ofthe brush-head,

as shown in Figs. 1, 3, and 4i; and upon one end of said strip a small brush is fastened, as shown at F, Figs. l and 2, and the strip oi' Wood thereby serves as the handle of said small brush.

The groove, besides being of a dovetail shape, is also slightly tapering, as shown in Fig. l, so that the handle of the small brush will bind 'firmly in the slot, as it is forced` `by the smaller brush F.

The box of blacking may have its cover removed before being inserted in the brush or in its receptacle, and when so inserted may be inverted, so that the bottom, which is clean, may be uppermost, and when the slide or cover is slipped over it to hold it in place, then the several parts are so combined as to be ready for neat transportation.

I therefore clairn` p The back of a blaeking-brush having a tapering dovetail groove, E, and a recess, D, for the reception of a box of blacking, asshown, in combination with the slide E having the brush F, and adapted to the tapering dovetailed groove, to confine in place the box of blacking, substantially as described.

JAMES RYAN.

Witnesses:

J oHN W. RIPLEY, BOYD ELroT. 

